"The question is whether these stories recall this time, for then they might date from as much as 13000 years ago. A more conservative interpretation, based on a sea level 30m lower than today, would place the age of this story at around 10000 years ago."
theconversation.com/ancient-aborig…
The underlying paper in Australian Geographer on which this report is based - "Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000 Years Ago" - is well worth reading. If you have an institutional login, it can be read here:
doi.org/10.1080/000491…
A powerful case can be made that the Dreaming - the Australian Aboriginal religio-cultural worldview - is the most effective way of transmitting stories across deep time yet devised anywhere by mankind.
See this thread for more on deep-time communication:
See this thread also for another possible example of Aboriginal communication across deep time.
This tweet has been retweeted too often now for me to delete and replace it, but if I could edit it, I'd make the larger and more important point: the Dreaming may be the most successful and effective way of transmitting INFORMATION across deep time yet devised.
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